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JUAN FERNANDEZ NAVARRETE (1526-1579)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 282 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FERNANDEZ See also:NAVARRETE (1526-1579)  , surnamed El Mudo (The See also:Mute), See also:Spanish painter of the See also:Madrid school, was See also:born at Logrono in 1526 . An illness in See also:infancy deprived him of his See also:hearing, but at a very See also:early See also:age he began to See also:express his wants by sketching See also:objects with a piece of See also:charcoal . He received his first instructions in See also:art from Fray See also:Vicente de Santo Domingo, a Hieronymite See also:monk at See also:Estella, and afterwards he visited See also:Naples, See also:Rome, See also:Florence and See also:Milan . According to the See also:ordinary See also:account he was for a considerable See also:time the See also:pupil of See also:Titian at See also:Venice . In 1568 See also:Philip II. summoned him to Madrid with the See also:title of See also:king's painter and a See also:salary, and employed him to execute pictures for the See also:Escorial . The most celebrated of the See also:works he there produced are a "Nativity" (in which, as in the well-known See also:work on the same subject by See also:Correggio, the See also:light emanates from the See also:infant Saviour), a "See also:Baptism of See also:Christ" (now in the Madrid Picture See also:Gallery), and " See also:Abraham Receiving the Three Angels" (one of his last performances, dated 1576) .

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